Origix has introduced GigaNet metro Ethernet services in Minneapolis. The service, which is the first in Minnesota, gives businesses access to fast and reliable data communications technology.
With speeds of a Gigabit per second (Gbps) and beyond, the firm's new
GigaNet service is more than 22 times faster than a DS-3 connection and
more than 667 times faster than a T-1 line. At maximum bandwidth, the system
can transfer more than a billion bits of data per second.
GigaNet is dynamically scalable, which means it's easy to increase or
decrease bandwidth in 1 Megabit per second (Mbps) increments with no service
interruption. This eliminates the need for businesses to be locked into fixed
amounts of IP bandwidth that can be underutilized.
The new service is currently used by many firms, including the law firm of DOrsey & Whitney. The scalability of GigaNet provides the varying amounts of bandwidth
required by Dorsey & Whitney's new document management system. Traditional systems can't provision changes in bandwidth that quickly.
"It is a lot of bandwidth for the money," said Glen Kragness, director of technology for Dorsey. Businesses pay only for the bandwidth used, and
Origix's dedicated optical network eliminates expensive local-loop charges.
GigaNet's point-to-point Ethernet delivers connectivity
with latency of less than 5 milliseconds. That speed, combined with the virtual
local area networks (LANs) and storage area networks (SANs) it creates across
metropolitan areas, also makes GigaNet a possible choice for remote data storage and business continuity services.
Origix's GigaNet network is integrated with its Optimized Network
Access Point (ONAP) that ensures optimal routing of IP traffic to multiple
Internet networks, providing up to 30 percent greater efficiency for Internet
access. Origix leverages Sockeye Network's Global Route 3.0 service to
optimize the upstream IP traffic. Whether a business uses a quarter Mbps of
bandwidth or a gigabit of bandwidth, the IP traffic is optimized.
Route optimization was important to Dorsey & Whitney, Kragness said,
because it increases reliability and reduces the firm's need to contract with
multiple IP carriers.
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